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Smith Westerns, Porcelain Raft, and Bleached at Paradise. Concert Review

Published on February 1, 2012 By Mike K

Sunday night, after a long weekend skiing with the bros from my office (my knuckles were sore from so must fist-bumping), it was good to get back in my element for a night of garage/experimental pop at the Paradise. I am excited to say that this is the first concert I’ve been to where I’ve [...]

Surfer Blood Played WFNX Sponsored Concert

Published on November 15, 2011 By mmly

November 14th, 2011 (review by Emily) It was a shadowy beach party at Landsdowne Pub last night as Surfer Blood played, courtesy of radio station WFNX. The free show brought in an assortment of hipsters and radio listeners; this was not my typical Monday night music scene. Budweiser girls were passing out T-shirts and people [...]

Review: Dinosaur Jr. at Paradise 2011.06.25

Published on June 25, 2011 By Mike K

All our heroes will die. The Paradise rock club was packed on Wednesday night–the most crowded I’ve ever seen it. I’ve been to sold-out shows there before, but the scrawny hipsters who normallypopulate the crowd take up a lot less room without the sagging paunches accumulated over twenty extra years. Receding hairlines complimented with sagging [...]

Review: David Bazan and S. Carey at TT’s (2011.06.20)

Published on June 20, 2011 By Mike K

“Don’t despair. Don’t you dare.” About 45 minutes into his set in Cambridge last night, I realized that I had outgrown David Bazan. Philosophically, I’ve more-or-less moved past the adolescent struggles I had with God and religion, the struggles which Bazan writes about almost exclusively. His songs have always been interesting to the extent that [...]